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| Preface | |
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| The Origins of Postwar America | |
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| Essays | |
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| The Origins of the Postwar International System | |
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| The Legacies of World War II | |
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| The Puzzle of Postwar Politics | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| The Origins of the Cold War | |
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| Documents | |
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| President Harry S Truman Discusses the Atom Bomb at Potsdam, July 194 | |
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| George F. Kennan's "Long Telegram," 1946 | |
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| Secretary of Commerce Henry A. Wallace Urges a Conciliatory Approach, July 1946 | |
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| Soviet Ambassador Nikolai Novikov Reports on the U.S. Drive for World Supremacy, September 1946 | |
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| The Truman Doctrine, March 1947 | |
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| Senator Joseph McCarthy Charges the Democrats Are "Soft on Communism," 1950 | |
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| The President's Advisers Urge Military Expansion (NSC-68), April 1950 | |
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| Essays | |
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| President Harry S Truman and the Origins of the Cold War | |
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| Two Cold War Empires | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| The Consumer's Republic: The 1950s and the Emergence of a New Economy of Mass Consumption | |
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| Documents | |
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| U.S. Business Celebrates the "Miracle of America," 1948 | |
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| A Report on the Baby Boom, 1954 | |
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| Newsweek Decries the Problem of Dangerous Teens, 1955 | |
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| Life Magazine Identifies the New Teen-age Market, 1959 | |
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| U.S. News and World Report Assesses the Perils of Mass Culture and the Evils of Television, 1955 | |
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| Vance Packard Warns Against the "Hidden Persuaders," 1957 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Visions of Classlessness | |
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| Making the American Girl | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| John F. Kennedy, the Cuban Revolution, and the Cold War | |
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| Documents | |
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| Fidel Castro Denounces U.S. Policy Toward Cuba, 1960 | |
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| President John F. Kennedy Calls for an Alliance for Progress, 1961 | |
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| A Board of Inquiry Reports on the Bay of Pigs, 1961 | |
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| A Senate Committee Investigates U.S. Plots to Assassinate Castro, 1960-1965 (1975) | |
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| President Kennedy and His Advisers Debate Options in the Missile Crisis, October 16, 1962 | |
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| Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev Appeals to President Kennedy, October 26, 1962 | |
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| Soviet Ambassador Anatoly I. Dobrynin Reports on His Meeting with Robert Kennedy, October 28, 1962 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Spinning Out of Control: Kennedy's War Against Cuba and the Missile Crisis | |
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| Aftermath | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| The African American Struggle for Equality | |
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| Documents | |
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| The New York Times Reports a Murder in Georgia, 1946 | |
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| African American Parents Petition the Clarendon, S.C., School Board, 1949 | |
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| A South African Novelist Examines the Plight of "The Negro in the North," 1954 | |
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| Franklin McCain Remembers the First Sit-in, 1960 | |
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| Martin Luther King Jr., "I Have a Dream," 1963 | |
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| Stokely Carmichael Explains "Black Power," 1967 | |
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| A Senate Committee Reports on the FBI's Campaign Against Martin Luther King, 1963-1968 (1976) | |
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| Police and Fire Department Logs Record an Urban Riot, 1967 | |
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| Essays | |
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| The View from the Trenches | |
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| The Continuing Racial Crisis | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| The Great Society and the Politics of Liberal Reform | |
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| Documents | |
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| President Lyndon B. Johnson Declares War on Poverty, 1964 | |
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| Congress Strikes Down Segregation in Public Accommodations: The Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title II (1964) | |
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| Ronald Reagan Warns of the Dangers of the Welfare State, 1964 | |
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| Two White House Aides Report the Achievements of the Great Society, 1966 | |
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| A Conservative Strategist Hails an "Emerging Republican Majority," 1969 | |
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| Earth Day, 1970 | |
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| Essays | |
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| The Rise of "Rights Consciousness" | |
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| Suburban Politics and the Limits of the Great Society | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| The New Radicalism: Politics and Culture in the 1960s | |
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| Documents | |
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| Students for a Democratic Society Issue the Port Huron Statement, 1962 | |
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| Jerry Rubin Declares Himself a "Child of Amerika," 1970 | |
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| Radicals Proclaim: "You Don't Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows," 1969 | |
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| The FBI's Secret Campaign Against the New Left, 1968-1971 (1976) | |
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| Raymond Mungo Searches for a New Age at Total Loss Farm, 1970 | |
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| A Polister Reports on "The Big Chill," 1974 | |
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| Essays | |
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| The Contradictory Legacy of the Sixties | |
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| The Sixties and the Origins of "Postmodern" America | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| From the Feminine Mystique to "Second Wave" Feminism | |
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| Documents | |
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| Betty Friedan on "The Problem That Has No Name," 1963 | |
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| Now Statement of Purpose, 1966 | |
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| Redstockings Manifesto, 1970 | |
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| Welfare Is a Women's Issue, 1972 | |
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| A Redbook Magazine Reader Discovers Consciousness-Raising, 1973 | |
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| The Supreme Court Rules on Abortion: Roe v. Wade, 1973 | |
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| Equal Rights Amendment, 1972 | |
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| Phyllis Schlafly Proclaims the Power of the Positive Woman, 1977 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Women's Liberation and Sixties Radicalism | |
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| Women at Work | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Vietnam and the Crisis of American Empire | |
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| Documents | |
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| The Vietnamese Declare Their Independence, 1945 | |
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| President Dwight D. Eisenhower Explains the Domino Theory, 1954 | |
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| Final Declaration of the Geneva Conference on Indochina, 1954 | |
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| A South Vietnamese Peasant Explains Why He Joined the Vietcong, 1961 (1986) | |
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| The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, 1964 | |
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| President Lyndon Johnson's Advisers Debate Expanding the War, 1965 | |
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| A "Tunnel Rat" Testifies About the My Lai Massacre, 1969 | |
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| The Paris Accords, 1973 | |
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| Essays | |
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| The Wages of War | |
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| Competing Memories | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Ronald Reagan and the Transformation of America | |
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| Documents | |
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| President Jimmy Carter and the Crisis of the American Spirit, 1979 | |
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| Presidential Candidate Ronald Reagan Calls for New Economic Policies, 1980 | |
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| A New Right Activist Explains Conservative Success, 1980 | |
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| President Ronald Reagan Proclaims America's "Spiritual Reawakening," 1983 | |
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| A Congressional Committee Reports on "Irangate," 1987 | |
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| An Environmentalist Attacks the Administration's Record, 1988 | |
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| Surgeon General C. Everett Koop Recalls the Administration's Response to the AIDS Crisis, 1981-1988 (2001) | |
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| Essays | |
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| The Republicans Take Control | |
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| A Disputed Legacy | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| The Promises and Perils of a New Economy | |
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| Documents | |
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| "New Democrats" Hail the New Economy, 1998 | |
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| A Federal Reserve Report Extols "Mass Customization," 1998 | |
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| Money Magazine Asks of Wal-Mart, "How Big Can It Get?" 1999 | |
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| A Critic Assails the Influence of Wal-Mart, 1999 | |
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| A Columnist Decries "Outsourcing" in the New Global Economy, 2004 | |
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| Americans for Democratic Action Reports Growing Poverty and Inequality, 2004 | |
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| A Research Firm "Segments" the American Market, 2000 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Working at Wal-Mart | |
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| The Fragmenting of America | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| E Pluribus Unum: Race and Ethnicity in a Changing World | |
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| Documents | |
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| Coming to America, 1900-2002 | |
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| Proposition 187: Californians Seek to Close the Door to Undocumented Immigrants, 1994 | |
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| Two Reporters Describe Los Angeles's Racial Tensions, 1995 | |
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| Social Scientists Report on the "New Americans," 1997 | |
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| An African American Novelist Decries "Race Talk," 1993 | |
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| Richard Rodriguez Ponders What It Means to Be "Brown," 2002 | |
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| Americans Express Support for Both Unity and Diversity, 2003 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Race, Immigration and Nativism | |
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| Race, Nation, and the Global Economy | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Politics and Political Culture in "Postmodern" America | |
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| Documents | |
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| Presidential Candidate Bill Clinton Promises a "New Covenant," 1992 | |
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| "Gays in the Military" Prompts Mobilization of Conservatives, 1993 | |
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| The Republican "Contract with America," 1994 | |
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| President Bill Clinton Ends "Welfare as We Know It," 1996 | |
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| Special Prosecutor Kenneth Starr's Indictment of President Bill Clinton, 1998 | |
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| Who Voted for Whom in 2000: A Chart | |
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| A Columnist Reports on How the Nation's Agenda Is Set, 2000 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Bill Clinton and the Postmodern Presidency | |
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| The Imperial Presidency Redivivus | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| New World Order | |
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| Documents | |
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| Presidential George H. W. Bush Announces a New World Order, 1990 | |
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| One World: An American Diplomat Hails the Opportunities of a New Era, 1995 | |
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| Osama Bin Laden Declares Jihad Against America, 1998 | |
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| The New York Times Reports Last Words from the World Trade Center, 2001 | |
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| President George W. Bush Announces a New National Security Strategy, 2002 | |
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| Senator Robert C. Byrd Charges "The Emperor Has No Clothes," 2003 | |
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| An Army Officer Ponders How America Is Losing Hearts and Minds in Iraq, 2004 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Setting Right a Dangerous World | |
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| In the Wake of September 11 | |
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| Further Reading | |